Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 8)

It ain't a pretty sight for the ears.

Don’t cast swine before bears.

You can’t change the spots on an old dog.

One good egg in a barrel of rotten apples.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

If your cousin Maude says one wrong word to me, we’re gonna be leaving before the bride takes the shower.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I guess the foot’s on the other hand now!

Absence makes a long story short.

Between closed walls

You can’t have your hill and die on it too.

Right between the nose

There's more that one way to skin the cat out of the bag.

99 times out of ten, that's what you'll get.

It's as plain as the egg on your face.

Like stealing cake from a baby

It looks like the cows have come home to roost.

I'm tired of being a pawn in your game of checkers!

These two guys are cut out of the same mold.

Talking to you is like casting pearls into wine.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Things are different when you have fifteen people on your plate.

We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin.

England football player

I hate to put you through all this rigor mortis.